A couple weeks ago I mentioned giving an Ubuntu CD to my neighbor.
I talked to her again while celebrating the new year last night, and
she mentioned giving it a spin. She is particularly impressed with
OpenOffice and says she wished she had known about it sooner. The
original plan was to put Ubuntu on an older PC she had kicking
around, but she has since then acquired an older Dell Laptop that
will instead be the Ubuntu trial system. It is looking likely that
this will be another successful Linux migration.

In related news, counting the one I gave my girlfriend, I now know
four people who have received XO laptops via the OLPC Give One Get One
program (which means four needy children also received laptops). Of
those four, only one was previously a Linux geek, so this is
definitely expanding the reach of Linux.

Happy New Year,

Thad
--
Yeah, I drank the Open Source cool-aid... Unlike the other brand, it had
all the ingredients on the label.

01-01-2008, 09:54 PM

unix

Re: Another Linux/OSS convert

On Tue, 01 Jan 2008 11:08:27 -0600, thad05 scribbled down:
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> A couple weeks ago I mentioned giving an Ubuntu CD to my neighbor.
> I talked to her again while celebrating the new year last night, and
> she mentioned giving it a spin. She is particularly impressed with
> OpenOffice and says she wished she had known about it sooner. The
> original plan was to put Ubuntu on an older PC she had kicking
> around, but she has since then acquired an older Dell Laptop that
> will instead be the Ubuntu trial system. It is looking likely that
> this will be another successful Linux migration.
>
> In related news, counting the one I gave my girlfriend, I now know
> four people who have received XO laptops via the OLPC Give One Get One
> program (which means four needy children also received laptops). Of
> those four, only one was previously a Linux geek, so this is
> definitely expanding the reach of Linux.
>
> Happy New Year,
>
> Thad[/color]

Nice work Thad. The important thing that people often forget to do is to
check up and follow up with the new Linux user a few days down the road.
If not they may get stuck on something and revert back to that 'other' OS
they are accustomed to working with.